The Prosecution Counsel, Mrs Ijeoma Ukagha, told the court that the matter was reported by the complainant, George Okoh of the Holy Family Catholic Church, Life Camp Abuja, at the Life Camp Police Station on Sept. 6.

Ukagha alleged that sometime in July the complainant gave Yaro N172, 000 to construct handrails for his stairways but he fraudulently absconded with the money.

The prosecutor further told the court that the defendant could not provide satisfactory account of himself during police interrogation.

She said the offence contravened the provisions of sections 312 and 322 of the Penal Code.

The defendant, however, pleaded not guilty to the charges.

The judge, Alhaji Inuwa Maiwada, admitted the defendant to bail in the sum of N50, 000 with a reliable surety in like sum.

He ordered that the surety must reside within the court’s jurisdiction and adjourned the case until Oct. 14 for further hearing.

Security operatives nab welder for allegedly defiling 2 daughters

The Ondo State Commandant of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) on Sunday announced that operatives of the command had arrested a welder, Femi Onifade, for allegedly defiling his two daughters.

The Commandant of the NSCDC in Ondo State, Mr Philip Ayuba, made the announcement in a statement, signed by the command’s Public Relations Officer, Mr Olufemi Omole, in Akure.

He said that Onifade, 48, defiled his two daughters, aged six and nine years.

The seizures and arrests followed a raid by the DPR and Civil Defence on the welding shop in Kabala Road, Tudun Wada, Kaduna.

The Head DPR Zonal Office, Kaduna, Mr Isa Tafida said the cylinders were confiscated because they were expired, scrap and had become dangerous to be used to refill cooking gas.

According to him, any attempt to refurbish them for reuse will be dangerous for everyone and everything around such environment, as they had become a time bomb waiting to explode.

“The massive sensitisation programme we embarked on is working. We received a tip-off from a member of the community, who informed us that this welder buys expired, scrap gas cylinders to refurbish and sell to the public as new.

“These cylinders are decommissioned with a hole in the bottom, but they put a bolt in the hole and weld them like that.

“The cylinders don’t have strength to hold gas; they cannot withstand gas pressure, at the slightest pressure they would explode like bomb.

“The guy just goes out look for pieces of cylinder scrap, welds them together, paints them and sells as new at exorbitant prices to unsuspecting public who don’t know that they are buying time bomb.

Tanker explosion: Welder burnt to death, 3 sustain burns in Awka

Awka, Jan. 14, 2019 The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) on Tuesday confirmed the death of one person, while three others sustained various degrees of burns in a petrol tanker explosion at a welder’s workshop in Amawbia area of Awka in Anambra.